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Born April 2, 1934 • Long Branch • New Jersey
Died March 23, 2007 (aged 72) • California
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1966)
Subjects Of Study continuum hypothesis • set theory
Georg Cantor
Georg Cantor
German mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
American mathematician
Stanislaw Ulam
American scientist
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau
Chinese-born mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician

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